Exercising-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK G. GOLLON, OF I-IOBOKEN, NEXV JERSEY.

EXERClSlNG-MACHINE.

$PEGIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 459,282, dated September 8, 1891.

Application filed March 12, 1891- Serial No- 384,774. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK G. GOLLON, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Exercising-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an exercising-machine, and has for its object to provide a maand pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section through the machine, taken on the line1 1 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the posts, and Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view of an attachment to the machine.

The base A of the machine is preferably made rectangular and in skeleton form, as shown in Fig. 2, embracing two end and two side beams connected in any suitable or approved manner. In each side beam, at or near the center thereof, a polygonal opening is made adapted to receive the reduced end of a post or pillar 10, the said reduced end being of a cross-sectional contour corresponding to that of the opening into which it is inserted. The posts or pillars 10 are in transverse alignment, and are held in removable connection with the base by means of a rod 11, passed through the side beams of the frame and through apertures in the reduced ends of the posts or pillars.

When the posts are in position, they are vertical and are braced by means of rods 12,

a rod being located at opposite sides of each post, as is best shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The rods at their upper ends are fitted in a thimble 13, located in the posts or pillars or in sockets produced in the posts, and the lower ends of the brace-rods are made to enter diagonally-placed thimbles or sockets 14, located or produced in the side beams of the frame.

A platform 15 is pivotal] y located between the posts or pillars. Ordinarily a rod or bar 16 is passed through the platform and through apertures in the posts or pillars near the upper ends thereof, as shown in Fig. 3. The

platform 15 is pivoted between its center and rear end and is of sufficient length to extend over and beyond the forward end of the base. The movement of the platform is limited by attaching cords 16 or their equivalents to the front and rear ends, and also to the front and rear ends of the base. A chair 17 is adjustably secured upon the platform back of its fulcrum, and the adjustment is usually effected by producing in the platform at or' near its rear end a longitudinal slot 18 and providing the chair-bottom with an attached bolt 19, extending downward through the slot, the lower end of the bolt being provided with a wing-nut 20 or similar device, as is best illustrated in Fig. 1. By rendering the chair adjustable upon the platform it may be moved forward or rearward to accommodate persons of different weight,it being necessary to so adjust the chair that the major portion of the weight of the body will be at the rear of the fulcrum of the platform. A slot 21 is produced in the platform at or near its forward end, and in said slot two friction-pulleys 22 and 23 are pivoted, one in front of the other. One end of a rope 24: is secured to the bottom of the platform between its fulcrum and forward end, which rope is passed over a friction-pulley 25, located upon the forward end of the base, and is from thence carried upwardthrough the slot 2lover the pulley 23 and downward and upward over the for ward pulley 22 and through a guide-staple 26 'or like device secured to the upper face of the platform. The upper end of the rope or cord 24 is preferably secured in an aperture 27, produced diametrically in a ball 28, the said ball being also provided with an essen tially U-shaped bore or aperture 29, as illustrated in Fig. 5. A rope 30 is passed through the aperture 29 in the ball in such a manner that the ends of the rope may be grasped by the hands of the occupant of the chair or seat 17, as shown in Fig. 1, the ball 28 constituting the coupling between the two ropes. Beneath the fulcrum of the platform a footrest 31 is pivoted at its ends in the posts or pillars 10.

' In operation, when a person is seated in the chair 17 and after said chair has been properly adjusted by grasping the ends of the rope 'and pulling the same backward, the forward end of the platform is drawn downward until the rear check-rope 16 is straightened out taut, and by drawing the platform clownward the occupant of the chair virtually lifts an amount corresponding practically to the weight of his body. By releasing the rope 30 and ceasing to draw upon the rope 24 and leaning backward in the chair the occupant of said chair will restore the platform to its normal or horizontal position. By this operation of drawing down the forward end of the platform and again bringing the platform upward either to a horizontal position or tilting the forward end upward the various muscles of the body are brought into action and are greatly benefited thereby, while considerable enjoyment is likewise afforded to children or to young persons in operating the device.

The pivoted foot-rest 31 also aids in exercising the muscles, as when the operator leans backward considerable pressure maybe exerted upon the back of the chair and upon the rest.

the several parts may be placed in the base and a fiat package readily made.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In an exercising-machine, the combina- The back of the chair is preferably made removable from its bottom. Then the tion, with a base and standards erected thereon, of a platform horizontally fulcrumed between its rear end and its center between the standards, a seat adjustable upon the platform, friction-rollers journaled in an opening in the platform near its forward end, and a cord attached to the platform connected with the base and passed over the friction-rollers of the platform, as and for the purpose specified.

2. In an exercising-machine, the combina tion, with a base, standards erected thereon, and a friction-pulley located at one end of the base, of a platform provided with an opening near its forward end, the said platform being fulcrumed at a point between its rear end and its center between the standards, a seat adjustably placed upon the platform at the rear of its fulcrum, friction-pulleys journaled in the forward opening of the platform,

and a rope or cord secured to the under surface of the platform, passed over the frictionpulley of the base and the friction-pulleys in the platform and outward in the direction of the seat, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In an exercisinganachine, the combination, with abase, removable standards secured thereto, a friction-pulley located at one end of the base, and a platform fulcrumed between the standards, the pivot-point of the fulcrum being located between its rear end and its center and the said platform being provided with an opening near its forward end, of a seat adjustably located upon the platform at the rear of its fulcrum, a foot-rest pivoted between the standards, brace-bars remov-ably connected with the standards and the base, pulleys located in the openings of the platform, a' cord or rope secured tothe platform between its fulcrum and its forward end, which cord or rope is passed over the pulley of the base and the pulleys of the platform and is carried outward in the direction of the seat, and check-lines connecting the ends of the platform with the ends of the'base, as and for the purpose specified.

FRANK G. GOLLON.

\Vitnesses:

J. FRED AOKER, O. SEDGWIQK. 

